February 11, 2013

And Ohel Has No Shame

Ohel – the haredi-run Orthodox Brooklyn-based social services nonprofit notorious for, among another things, a sex offender treatment program that reportedly structured its services in a way that allowed known pedophiles to leave the program without completing it while Ohel failed to report those pedophiles to poice – already honors Elly Kleinman, a CEO of a business, Americare, that has been fined $15 million by NY State for defrauding Medicaid and other government programs. What more could a shameless and amoral Ohel do?

Ohel – the haredi-run Orthodox Brooklyn-based social services nonprofit
notorious for, among another things, a sex offender treatment program
that reportedly structured its services in a way that allowed known
pedophiles to leave the program without completing it while Ohel failed
to report those pedophiles to police – already honors Elly Kleinman, a
CEO of a business, Americare, that has been fined $15 million by NY
State for defrauding Medicaid and other government programs.

Kleinman chaired Ohel's "Gala" fundraising dinner, which was held last night. He posed for pictures with leading New York politicians and hobnobbed with the rich and powerful, even though the Daily News reported last month that whistleblowers were alleging that his company, Americare, was back to its old tricks, defrauding government healthcare programs.

All this is bad enough.

But there is worse – much worse.

What more could an amoral, shameless Ohel do?

Ohel's shameless and amoral leaders allowed Kleinman's corrupt company Americare to be the sponsor of Ohel's dinner, and they put Americare's logo on Ohel's promotional material for that dinner. Please click to enlarge:

When I was in yeshiva, I was friends with a fellow bochur who lived at an Ohel group home (this was in the late 1970's. It didn't seem to be run, staffed, or administered by "hareidim" back then. It was kosher and everything, but they had TV, rock music records etc. Has the staffing of Ohel changed in the last 30 years?

Among Haredim, there's a heter (loophole) to (indirectly) steal from a goy. If in a transaction or sale, a goy gives you more money than he should, the yid can say I'm relying on your computation, without notifying the goy that he made a mistake.

SR: That's the way things work in the USA. PBS had no problem taking underwriting dollars from Archer Daniels Midland for years after the company was convicted of price fixing in the 1990's. The company was fined $100 million, several of its senior executives went to prison and the company settled a class action law suit for $400 million. Read about it at Wikipedia.

So called self righteous "frum" Jews are interested in one thing - money (egel hazahav). My experience in the legal arena is that secular jews are more scruplous. The "frum" will look for loopholes to scam you if the opportunity arises. Their yeshiva teaches them that shatnez is more important than "though shal not steal"

The frum Jews talk about money even on Shabbat, which is assur. They leave their business to go to mumble pray for 10 minutes (if you're mumbling doesn't that mean you don't believe or have cavana?), then go back to their shady businesses. I have never seen a frum Jew actually process payments properly with the tax added. Frum Jews are cultural ashkenazis reviving shtetl life in goldene medina. Lechaim to them, but they are very far from righteous.